Lot Essay
Compare the lobed example included in the Memorial Exhibition of the Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, February 13-March 30, 1952, Catalogue, no. 355
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AN UNUSUAL SMALL YINGQING OCTAGONAL EWER AND COVER
SONG DYNASTY
The faceted, globular body set on the canted shoulder with a curved spout and a ribbed strap handle surmounted by a tubular loop corresponding to one on the rounded rim of the cover, which is shallowly carved with eight petals surrounding the scalloped border of an eight-petaled flower encircling the recessed center with its stem finial, the interior of the neck of the ewer also cut with eight shallow scallops, covered allover with a transparent glaze of pale grayish blue-green color (small rim chip to cover)
6¼in. (15.8cm.) high, box
SONG DYNASTY
The faceted, globular body set on the canted shoulder with a curved spout and a ribbed strap handle surmounted by a tubular loop corresponding to one on the rounded rim of the cover, which is shallowly carved with eight petals surrounding the scalloped border of an eight-petaled flower encircling the recessed center with its stem finial, the interior of the neck of the ewer also cut with eight shallow scallops, covered allover with a transparent glaze of pale grayish blue-green color (small rim chip to cover)
6¼in. (15.8cm.) high, box